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Born | Heguri, Nara, Japan | 19 November 1991||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Kinan Racing Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Puncheur | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2010–2013 | NIFS in Kanoya | ||||||||||||||||||||
2014 | Ikaruga AsTifo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2016 | Vini Fantini–Nippo | ||||||||||||||||||||
2017– | Kinan Cycling Team[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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One-day races and Classics | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Genki Yamamoto (山本 元喜, Yamamoto Genki, born 19 November 1991) is a Japanese professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Kinan Racing Team.[2]
Yamamoto won the third stage of the Tour de Hokkaido twice while still a student at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya, first in 2010[3] and again in 2013.[4] He won the Under-23 Japanese National Road Race Championships twice in a row in 2010 and 2011.[5] He joined Vini Fantini–Nippo in 2014[6] and stayed on as it became a Professional Continental team starting in the 2015 season.[7] He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia.[8] He transferred to the Kinan Cycling Team for the 2017 season.[9]
Grand Tour | 2016 |
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Giro d'Italia | 151 |
Tour de France | — |
Vuelta a España | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |